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A community college in Concordia, Kan., will lower its windmills on campus after the Federal Aviation Administration warned the windmills could be a "presumed hazard." The 110-feet-tall windmills are in Blosser Municipal Airport's airspace.

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A project at Augusta Municipal Airport in Kansas is behind schedule due to rainy weather. The contractor was originally scheduled to finish the parallel-taxiway project Feb. 26. The new target date is about the end of April.

Hawker Beechcraft extended the filing date for its 2011 annual report and predicted a loss of $482 million for the year. "We continue to work closely with our lenders toward a comprehensive recapitalization that will resolve these issues and better position the company for the future," said CEO Steve Miller in a statement.

Northeast Helicopters Flight Services plans to relocate to Massachusetts from Connecticut. The helicopter flight school was founded at Ellington Airport in Connecticut in 1974, but plans to build a new facility at Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport in Massachusetts. "We have outgrown Ellington and we have decided to relocate to Barnes," said Rhonda J. Boulette, co-owner of the flight school.

If confirmed to head the FAA, Randy Babbitt will recuse himself from decisions involving a controversial Massachusetts wind farm because he once served as a lobbyist for a group opposing the Cape Wind Project on the basis that the turbines would interfere with aircraft radar. Despite the Obama administration's policy in favor of alternative energy, the FAA in February ruled that the $1 billion Massachusetts project would constitute a "presumed hazard" to aviation in the area.

The FAA is concerned that some high-rises planned for Arlington, Va., could compromise safety for aircraft flying in and out of Reagan National Airport. The FAA last week ruled for the third time in a year that the buildings would pose a "presumed hazard." The FAA cannot legally stop the construction, but county officials say projects that are not approved by the FAA will not go forward.